Jen Chaput
@jenchaput.bsky.social
Data librarian, crafter, reader, lover of weird animals. All thoughts my own.
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Your laptop has been collected by our maintenance team and will returned to you in full working order.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Your laptop has been collected by our maintenance team and will returned to you in full working order.
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If this doesn't win an #IGNobel next year, I'm calling foul. Chicago 🧪 for the win. Thanks to the every-informative @aaas.org newsletter for this gem. www.science.org/content/arti...
Chicago’s beloved ‘rat hole’ was actually made by a squirrel
Scientists reopen the case of “splatatouille”
www.science.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If this doesn't win an #IGNobel next year, I'm calling foul. Chicago 🧪 for the win. Thanks to the every-informative @aaas.org newsletter for this gem. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Data Rescuers come in all shapes and sizes. And whether you're more #Barbie, #Ken, or #Allan, we want you to download these and use them on social media! Don't forget to tag us in your Data Rescue Pride.⚓💾🛟
PS: Let us know if we should make more of these! We ❤️ an excuse to design happy little memes
PS: Let us know if we should make more of these! We ❤️ an excuse to design happy little memes
October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.
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They're using a photo from 1992, from LA after the Rodney King verdict.
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
They're using a photo from 1992, from LA after the Rodney King verdict.
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Do we need to split the MMR vaccine into 3 shots?
No.
-No medical reason. Current vax has no safety issues and works very well
-Kids don’t like needles. Why give them 3x the shots?
-Peds office already have limited bandwidth. Who staffs 3x the visits?
Another nonsensical, unserious “policy”
No.
-No medical reason. Current vax has no safety issues and works very well
-Kids don’t like needles. Why give them 3x the shots?
-Peds office already have limited bandwidth. Who staffs 3x the visits?
Another nonsensical, unserious “policy”
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Do we need to split the MMR vaccine into 3 shots?
No.
-No medical reason. Current vax has no safety issues and works very well
-Kids don’t like needles. Why give them 3x the shots?
-Peds office already have limited bandwidth. Who staffs 3x the visits?
Another nonsensical, unserious “policy”
No.
-No medical reason. Current vax has no safety issues and works very well
-Kids don’t like needles. Why give them 3x the shots?
-Peds office already have limited bandwidth. Who staffs 3x the visits?
Another nonsensical, unserious “policy”
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Not to mention archivists. AI gonna arrange and describe physical collections? Also, Library Science Teachers Postsecondary? So LIS faculty? They scared because librarians are teaching ppl that you can't blindly trust generative AI results
This is less of a biased study trying to push for more AI usage. It's a list of the utmost fantasies of the worst anti-intellectual executives sitting at Microsoft.
This is such a display of ignorance? A complete uselessness regarding what Historians and Mathematicians do in their jobs.
This is such a display of ignorance? A complete uselessness regarding what Historians and Mathematicians do in their jobs.
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Not to mention archivists. AI gonna arrange and describe physical collections? Also, Library Science Teachers Postsecondary? So LIS faculty? They scared because librarians are teaching ppl that you can't blindly trust generative AI results
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At least 15 colleges and universities across the US have received bomb threats targeting their libraries since Sunday. This doesn't include a pair of reports of shooters and one "suspicious incident."
These are all part of another series of swatting incidents.
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
These are all part of another series of swatting incidents.
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries
At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.
bookriot.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
At least 15 colleges and universities across the US have received bomb threats targeting their libraries since Sunday. This doesn't include a pair of reports of shooters and one "suspicious incident."
These are all part of another series of swatting incidents.
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
These are all part of another series of swatting incidents.
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules
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This is a president who only likes pre-ordained answers. Remember that when his idiots claim a “breakthrough” on autism.
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a president who only likes pre-ordained answers. Remember that when his idiots claim a “breakthrough” on autism.
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Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
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It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
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Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
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sure 10 thousand scientists said this was real and true, but one disgraced man said it's not and we think both sides have things you should consider
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
sure 10 thousand scientists said this was real and true, but one disgraced man said it's not and we think both sides have things you should consider
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what if the mainstream political press hadn't spent the last 2 decades validating every horrible ass idea from some nobody on the internet as a complete and valid take, where would we be if they'd treated vaccine and science denial with the derision it deserves idk idk
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year
We are getting dumber as a society
We are getting dumber as a society
September 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
what if the mainstream political press hadn't spent the last 2 decades validating every horrible ass idea from some nobody on the internet as a complete and valid take, where would we be if they'd treated vaccine and science denial with the derision it deserves idk idk
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Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
I was in the UK earlier this summer. On a tour, the guide said he would trade us the entire royal family (minus Princess Anne, she's ok) for raccoons
They don’t got raccoons in England
August 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I was in the UK earlier this summer. On a tour, the guide said he would trade us the entire royal family (minus Princess Anne, she's ok) for raccoons
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a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel